Art Guide Australia

A Tangle of Materials

ecay and renewal are key elements in the work of Jahnne Pasco-White. Blurring the boundaries between painting and installation, Pasco-White engages with a sensory blend of natural and artificial materials to create work imbued with rich colour and tactility. Densely layered, the Melbourne artist's work also takes in the broader concerns of ecology and the human impact on the environment, the result being a vibrantly expressionist practice that illustrates lived experiences from a domestic and global

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Art Guide Australia

Art Guide Australia3 min read
Everything In Between
The artist Jumaadi paints and draws on the tough hide from water buffalo once used to plough rice fields. His art, which depicts Javanese folk culture, also encompasses cloth canvas, laboriously stretched and sealed in a large pond of rice glue, hand
Art Guide Australia4 min read
Talking Promises Jill Orr
When we speak, Orr’s current exhibition, The Promised Land Refigured, is opening at Linden New Art, revisiting an earlier series from 2012. Originally performed at sites of migrant arrival and colonial expansion at St Kilda and along the Yarra River,
Art Guide Australia2 min read
A Note From the Editor
The images created by Tasmania-based artist Pat Brassington have always felt to me like the underside of the Australian art psyche, so readily lending themselves to psychoanalytic, surrealist and feminist readings. It’s a privilege to have these work

Related Books & Audiobooks